Dan eylands



(No Model.)

D.-RYLANDS. BOTTLE 'STOPPER'. No. 245,664. Patented Aug. 16,1881.

up E UNITED. STATES" PATENT OFFIC DAN aYLAnDs, or ARDSLEYNEARBARNSLEY, COUNTY or YORK, ENGLAND.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 245,664, dated August 16,1881,

Application filed December 20, 1880. (No model.) Patented in England November 27, 1878, in France May 23, 1879, in Belgium May 23, 1879, and in Italy September 30, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAN RYIANDS, of Ardsley near Barnsley, in the county of York, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Securing Stoppers to Bottles,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improved devices for securing stoppers to bottles 5 and the objects of my improvements are, first, to provide novel means of securing the stopper to the bottle in such a manner that it maybe readily applied and removed; second, to provide a novel combination of devices for that purpose. I attain these objects by the mechanism or devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 isa sectional elevation of a portion of a bottle, showing the projection for securin g the stopper to it, and a slight annular ledge, upon which the stopper or a parkingringre ts. Fig. 2 is an elevation of a portion of a bottleneck, showing asingle projection thereon. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the mouth of a bottle, showing a circular ledge on the top thereof. Fig. 4 is an elevation, and Fig. 5 a plan view, of a bottle-stopper, showing an annular groove for the reception of a ring of metal, which aids in holding the stopper in position. Fig. 6 is a plan view of a packing-rim g of rubber or other elastic substance, and Fig. 7 is a sectional ele vation thereof. Fig. 8 is an elevation of the stopper, showing the rubber ring attached thereto. Fig. 9 is an elevation of the ring or clip which unites the stopper to the bottle when used in connection with bars and a circular clip placed upon the neck of the bottle. Fig. 10 is a side elevation thereof, and Fig. 11 is a plan view of it. Fig. 12 is an elevation showing the clipin position on the stopper, the bars, and the stopper. Fig. 13 is a plan view, showing the form which the clip assumes when compressed into the groove in the stopper. Fig. 14 is an elevation of the clip or circular ring used on the neck of the bottle, and which is made of metal. Fig. 15 is an elevation thereof, showing the pins on its periphery for connecting it to the bars or rods which connect it to the clip on the stopper. Fig. 16 shows the shape which the clip represented in Fig. 15 assumes when placed upon the neck of the bottle and pressed into the the reception of the lower ring or clip.

groove formed therein. Fig. 17 is an elevation showing a portion of the neck of abottle with the stopper in position and also the annular clips or rings and bars or rods which unite the stopper to the bottle. Fig. 18 is an elevation showing the stopper turned aside for the purpose of filling or emptying the bottle. Fig. 19 is an elevation of the clip or ring which is placed upon the stopper, and also the bars or rods which unite it to the neck of the bottle, they beingfin this example, provided with pins orprojeetious which passinto agroove on the bottle or beneath projections formed on the neck thereof. Fig. 19 is an elevation and sectional view of a rubber tube or washer for use on the pins shown in Fig. 19. Fig. 20 is a plan view showing grooves or recesses in the clip which is placed upon the bottle for the passage of projections on the neck thereof when said projections are used in place ofthe annular groove. Figs. 21 and 22 show holes formed in the neck of a bottle, into which the pins on the bars or rods connected to the upper clip or ring may be made to enter instead of being caused to enter a groove or pass beneath 1 )rojections. When the holesjustalluded to are used the stopper should have projections formed upon that portion thereof which comes in contact with the lower edge of the ring of the clip, they being beveled so that as the stopper is turned it will be pressed down upon the neck of the bottle or upon the packing-ring placed therein, and thus a tightjoint will be formed. Figs. 23 to 27, inclusive, are designed to show a modification of my improvements, the method of securing the parts being reversed, Fig. 23 show- .ing a stopper with projections formed on it instead of being placed on the bottle, as in the previously-referred-to examples. Fig. 24. is an elevation of a stopper, showing it as provided with an annular groove for receiving the clip or ring. Fig. 25 is an elevation of a portion of a bottle having in it an annular groove for Fig.

26 shows the parts in position for sealing the bottle under this modified arrangement; and Fig. 27 is an elevation showing how the stopper may be removed, so as to permit the bottle to be filled or emptied.

Similar letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In applying my improvements to bottles I provide a stopper, A, which I prefer to make of glass, but which may be made of any other suitable material. To the under surface of this stopper there is affixed a ring or washer, B, of india-rnbber or other elastic material, which is made to fit into a recess formed in the upper surface of the neck of the bottle, or it may rest upon the plane surface thereof, it being held in position by a projection formed on the under surface of the stopper. In the body of this stopper there is formed an annular groove, 0, into which there is compressed or forced an annular clip or ring of metal, D, said clip or ring being freeto turn in its recess or groove without turning the stopper. To the clip or ring D there are riveted or otherwise secured two or more bars or rods, D D the. lower ends of which are secured by rivets or by pins to another clip or ring, E, of metal, which is compressed or bentinto the form shown in Fig.16 or Fig. 20, for the purpose of allowing it to be pressed over projections F formed on the neck of the bottle, so as to secure it and the stopper thereto. When this clip is used in connection with the projectionsF upon the bottle, (shown in Fig. 1,) its form is to lie-such asis shownin Fig. 16, but when used in connection with lugs G G, arranged as shown in Fig. 2, its form is to be such as is shown in Fig. 20. Either of these forms ot'construction, which are regarded as the equivalents of each other, afford ready means of applying and removing the stopper from the bottle, and by making the lower surfaces of the projections F or G slightly angular or in the form ofa section of a screw-thread the stopper may be firmly pressed down upon its packing-ring by a partial turning of the clip E after it has been properly placed upon the neck of the bottle.

The modifications shown in Figs. 23 to 27, inclusive, are regarded as making only a change of the arrangement of the parts of the device, and not as in any sense involving a change in the principle of operation, the change consisting in placing the lugs on the stopper instead of on the neck of the bottle, and forming the groove or annular recess in the neck of the bottle instead of in the stopper, as shown in the other figures of the drawing.

The mode of operating this device is as follows: The parts having been constructed and arranged as shown in Figs. 1 to 22, inclusive,

' the bottle or jar or other vessel to which a stopper thus constructed may be applied is placed in any desirable position and filled with any substance which it may be desirable to seal up in such a manner as to exclude the air therefrom or toprevent the escape of gas. When the vessel is thus filled the lower clip or ring, E, is slipped over the neck of the bottle and down below the projections, when it is pressed into the form shown in Fig. 16 or 20, when by turning it partially around it will cause the stopper to press upon the packing-ring, and thus efi'ectually seal the bottle.

The operation of the devices shown in Figs. 23 to 27, inclusive, is the same in effect, the only difference being that the lower clip is compressed into arecess formed in the neck ofthe bottle. while the upper one passes over projections formed upon the stopper.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, anddesire to have secured by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a bottle or other vessel in which substances are to be'sealed up, of the projections formed upon said bottle, a stopper made of glass or other suitable material having in it an annular groove, a ring or clip which is compressed into a groove formed in the stopper, connecting rods or bars for unit-- ing two clips or rings, and a clip or ring of such form as to permit itto pass over the projections on the bottle, the parts being arranged for joint operation substantially as described.

DAN RYLANDS.

Witnesses ARTHUR 0. HALL, OALBERT E. HALL. 

